Sylvia Banda (born 1962) is a Zambian business woman, restaurateur and social entrepreneur.[1][2][3][4] She is an Ashoka fellow.[5] Banda promotes local food use, choosing ingredients for her restaurant from local and small-scale farms.[1][6] She started her own business, Sylva Professional Catering in 1986.[1] By 2009, she had 16 restaurants in Lusaka.[2] In 2014, she invested $105,000 in US dollars to open a food processing plant in Zambia.[7]
Banda has also served as the chair of the Zambia Chapter of the African Women Entrepreneurship Programme (AWEP).[8]Lusaka Voice calls Banda "one of Zambia's most recognisable entrepreneurs."[9] Banda and her husband, Hector, publish Zambian cuisine recipes in a weekly Times of Zambia column called "Zambian Dishes with Sylvia Catering."[10] Banda also trains women on how to preserve local foods.[11] She has a nonprofit organization, Sylva Food Solutions (SFS) to help local farmers increase business.[12]
Banda works with the University of Zambia to offer an agriculture-based training programme that promotes innovative thinking as well as traditional foods and recipes.[13]
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^ ab"Top tips from Africa's entrepreneurs". BBC News. BBC. 11 March 2009. Retrieved 2013-02-03.
^"Growth Management for a Zambian Hospitality Empire: Sylvia Banda and Sylva Professional Catering Services and College Limited" (PDF). Columbia Business School. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
^"Sylvia Banda (Sylva Group of companies)". Startup Grind. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
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^Chanda, Davies M.M. (25 December 2014). "'Add value to products'". Times of Zambia. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
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